New in Yahoo! Mail - Find old email easily
October 15th, 2007
(66 votes, average: 4.09 out of 5)
Loading ...There’s nothing more annoying than losing an email. We do have a very powerful search engine in Yahoo! Mail but sometimes the phrase you’re searching on is so vague and general that you end up trawling through masses of messages, even after you’ve filtered your inbox with a search.
Our engineers have delivered a great solution to this. Now, when I type a term (”golf” in the example below), not only do I get the mass of messages matching that term in the inbox view but I also see a breakdown of all matching emails categorised by sender, folder, date, attachment type and message status.
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So now, if I’m looking for the photos my dad sent me from our last game of golf, I just type search for “golf”, then hop to the category box and look up emails from my dad as the sender. Or, I could choose only photo attachment types. Either way, I find what I’m looking for, double quick.
Happy email finding
Jon, Yahoo! Mail Team
Entry Filed under: search, yahoo mail tips
62 Comments Add your own
1. Margaret Watson | October 16th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Dear Yahoo Mail, My niggle is being asked to log in and give password sometimes as often as every five minutes , despite the fact that my account profile specifies every two weeks. Today after only about 2 minutes with mail open it said I needed to log in again. I know you are pormoting a better service, but if you can’t give me good service at this level why should I pay up? Thank you for the days when it does work. Margaret Watson
2. Morosanu Robert | October 18th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
Very interesting feature . Yahoo keeps getting better & better .
Robert .
3. Mark Joseph | October 18th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I receive 14 E-mails every day which are placed in the Bulk file and these E-mails are not addressed to my E-mail account.,but to someone else’s E-mail account, but sent to me . I wonder how this could happen.I am not interested in such E-mails.
4. DZIEDZORM | October 19th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
THIS IS WONDERFULL
5. Sookraj Chanka | October 19th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Will try to see how it works for me.
6. PRECIOUS | October 19th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
IT LOOKS GOOD
7. Miguel | October 20th, 2007 at 8:14 am
The best e-mail search tool ever!
8. stacey | October 20th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
i love yahoo because i think its a good think to have because everyone use it all the time and we need it us poeple thanks very much for it.x.x.
9. mark m.isaboke | October 20th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
this is beutiful
10. Sam | October 21st, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Sorry but this is OT. Why don’t you make the newer version of Yahoo Mail available to users of other OSes?? I use Win98, but at the library I’m able to enjoy the new Yahoo. I like the new Yahoo better than the classic… too bad it’s not available for 98.
11. Bethan Renney | October 23rd, 2007 at 1:08 pm
It is very easy to have Yahoo mail and it is really good
12. Colin | October 23rd, 2007 at 1:58 pm
When I go into ’search mail’ I end up in a foreign yahoo site - french, german, spanish etc. Going back, then into Search Mail again enough times gets you into the UK version, with wording in English
13. HARRY HARRISON -ANSAH | October 24th, 2007 at 8:37 am
My old yahoo email programe has changed and I don’t know why? can you help me to set it up back?
14. lizzie | October 24th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
that is really awesome
15. Emmanuel | October 25th, 2007 at 3:20 am
Whoever thought this out has done a superb job. He obviously deserves commendation.
Keep up being the best. Kudos to all of you.
Thanks.
16. eric williams | October 25th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
better than thelast
17. john wilmot | October 25th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
I have just lost all my back emails sent to me including todays. Can you please reinstate them or tell me how I can do this. It is the first time all my past mails have been swiped in bulk. John Wilmot.
18. shani | October 26th, 2007 at 6:15 am
i like yahoo beta live chat.
19. jotham | October 26th, 2007 at 9:13 am
waoh!! bravoo! u guys.it’s great i was in disaster in searching process.but know its simple as i cant imagine.thanx alot.
20. Rachel McNamara | October 26th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
This is a fantastic new addition to the search feature. I was hoping you would do something like this for a long time. You can’t imagine how much time it saves me
Many thanks
Rachel
21. Ahmed T. Kebbie | October 27th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Bravo Yahoo! It’s so great. You’re making the wider world a five-house village.Thank you so much.
22. Nishi | October 27th, 2007 at 9:46 am
mind blowing ^_^
23. Szabo Eva | October 28th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
i’m really happy that is exists yahoo and you guys gave us the possibility to comunicate all over the world quick and safe.Thanks a lot! XXX
24. dana | October 28th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
i pefer the old style of the email.
25. IROHAM IHEANYICHUKWU C. | October 29th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
I want switch back to the old version f4 now
26. Hussain | October 30th, 2007 at 5:13 am
its a great tool thanks to yahoo developers,
but there were a nice function in the old edition of yahoo mail the on that shows only the attachments and categorize them, this was a great function i hope it will be available in the new version of yahoo
27. iqbal husain | October 30th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Sir, now i find it is difficult to open mails. it is too much slow compare to ealier systems and operation. kindly do the needful for easier to operat, and quick respose from yahoo.
28. Onaolapo Aderemi Akeem | October 30th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
What a fantastic search tool.
29. lol-me-lol | October 31st, 2007 at 4:58 pm
wow thats awsome
30. not modified | November 1st, 2007 at 6:00 pm
yahoo’s newly improved email search engine is great because when yahoo account users want to look for a specfic email, or upon a subject, the engine is made simplier, easier and mush more romy free other words users get the best abilitoes to looking for example from a sender and John need, subject could be “hilarious joke of hte day” and the message/description would tell you what its categoirsed at….
31. Ariane | November 3rd, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Dear Yahoo! Mail Team
Can you tell me how to permanently delete names which have been deleted (from my Address Book/Contacts) but keep popping up whenever i click a first letter in a) the Compose box, b) the First Name or Nick name or Last Name box when i am trying to add a fresh contact in my Address book. Some names which i have deleted from my Contacts/Address Book even appear in my partner’s Yahoo! Compose and Address Book/Contacts, if he adds a fresh contact , and he has a completely different email address and password - just the same computer! Surely that can’t be right! Ariane
32. mablehamuntili | November 5th, 2007 at 8:09 am
I wish you could find means of keeping old mails.
33. dammy | November 5th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
yahoo’s newly improve email search engine is great becose when yahoo account users want to look for a specfic email, or upon a subject, the engine is make simplier, easier and must more room free other words users get the best abilitoes to looking for example from a sender
34. busola | November 5th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
done a great job.keep it up
35. OLUWASANMI OYADIJI(sammy) | November 5th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
It really niece having this kind of move on yahoo mail,probably if this have been done earlier may be I would have gotten those my old friends back again.Anyway I still give you a KUDO for this.Still sammy Olsamyad
36. sarath vayanappillil | November 6th, 2007 at 4:29 am
really fantastic. Useful
37. Sunil | November 6th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
I am glad that the pane at the extreme right if finally put to good use. I don’t know if that pane is supposed to serve adverts. or not, but it keeps on re-appearing everytime you click and open an email after you have tried to hide it by clicking on the small “>” to get rid of it.
The search feature is excellent and very handy now that we don’t delete mails - after bidding good bye to the storage meter
Thanks a lot, Yahoo Mail team!
38. marie martinez | November 6th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
I just found this new system and lay -out, very har to get on with. Can you tel me for goodnes-sake, where can I find my address book??????????????, since the chenge I have not sent any message, as no been able to find the e-mail addresses…………..Please answerd a soon as possible…..
39. Kelly | November 6th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
I love pink & i have selected pink but i would like to see a lot more pink on my mail page as it would look better.
Thanks
Regards
Kelly
40. Omodii Alex Gupirii | November 7th, 2007 at 9:35 am
It is in line with the highly competitive technology of the world.You made us enjoy benefits of high standards.So great really.
41. JO BLOGGS | November 7th, 2007 at 11:47 am
This upgrade of your e mail is awful - the adverts are far too obtrusive
42. Wendy Headon | November 7th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Just been and checked it out - what an excellent tool to help find that ‘lost’ email. Very useful!
43. lucy | November 8th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
It is Great I think it should be a five star thing it is so great
44. Paul Button | November 9th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Could it not be made possible for a SPAM button to be set into the BULK Folder, so that when receiving Bulk mail it can be directly sent to Spam, instead of it having to be sent to another folder before being sent to Spam. I am sure that this would not be a hard job for your excellent programmers to do and I am sure that a lot of your customers would be pleased, instead of having to wait for a week for it automatically to be sent to Spam, as is the case at present.
Paul Button
45. edo | November 10th, 2007 at 10:18 am
this is nice than before
46. SIMON | November 11th, 2007 at 8:31 am
we love you big brother yahoo you are too much
your fantastic features are great and wonderful
pls keep it up.
47. dgadzamoyo | November 11th, 2007 at 8:35 am
Continous improvement, fantastic.
48. kafi | November 11th, 2007 at 10:46 am
really beauti ful e-mail
49. 'chan Eve | November 12th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
This was no doubt a perfect development for the yahoo! users. However, is there a way I could get back to my old mail appearence?style? This would be a little more helpful for me
50. G | November 14th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
The old yahoo is much eassier to follow.. The new is not bold enough.
51. Cajetan Ikuenobe | November 15th, 2007 at 10:51 am
would appreciate prompt response once i open my box
52. Goreti atienoh | November 15th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
its nice and faster but pliz i dont know where compose is i cant get it.so i cant send an e mail .
53. Patricia Huffell | November 15th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
My daughter has been in Perth for two years and until the last couple of months we have had no problem with e-mails. Now she is regularly having her e-mails to me returned with a message saying they cannot be delivered. Why is this? She has suggested I ” reduce” my Spam level but I cannot see how to do this and frankly don’t really want to.
Can you help please as I am not getting important messages from her about the family and forthcoming new baby
54. Peter Edwards | November 16th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Just sent reply to an E-Mail which showed up as unable to deliver,as it was urgent I phoned the recipient who said they had received it perfectly
55. wicky | November 17th, 2007 at 5:35 am
actually i have found where i was looking a better place for chat and sending email to different friends in the world
56. Shubi | November 17th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Fantastic…..!!! It’s really a great achievement and very very good and convenient for those who love to use Yahoo..Congrats…!!!
57. lysette | November 18th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
I want my old yahoo background back!!!!!!!!!!!
58. mandira mukherjee | November 20th, 2007 at 3:49 am
I have been using this account for last 7 years. But since Oct 25th 2007 all my mails in the mailbox are getting automatically deleted . I cannot pinpoint the problem . can you help????
Have not yet recd any reply against my last mail. May be that mail got deleted too.
59. david wynn-wilson | December 5th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
In attempting to transfer Emails from my old account, there is no means of adding @tesco.net. Can this be provided?
60. lee | March 19th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
‘Dear Sir or Madam, unfortunately i had to go to hospital in october 2005. I came out this january and i found my email account EMPTY without any email, pictures or souvenirs of the time before. Is there a possibility to%’ (clipped with Yahoo! Toolbar)
61. R Y Raisch | April 14th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Can no longer forward messages easily. Cannot access Address book & automatically send addresses to my Address bar. Switching back and forth between two pages to copy addresses into address bar is a hassle. Have been using Yaboo for 8 years, have addressed this issue to you twice with no response and am thinking of looking elsewhere for satisfaction! Please, put the older, easier mail back.
62. Max Dahlgren | October 5th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Looks pretty easy
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